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The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

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Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851)

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A SERIES OF PLAYS: IN WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO DELINEATE THE STRONGER PASSIONS OF THE MIND EACH PASSION BEING THE SUBJECT OF A TRAGEDY AND A COMEDY.
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BASIL:
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SONG.— a glee.
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DE MONFORT:
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ACT V.
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ETHWALD:
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PART FIRST.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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PART SECOND.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V
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ORRA:
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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THE BEACON:
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ACT II.
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SONG.
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ROMIERO:
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ACT V.
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HENRIQUEZ:
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ACT V.
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MISCELLANEOUS PLAYS.
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RAYNER:
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ACT II.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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CONSTANTINE PALEOLOGUS;
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ACT III.
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THE FAMILY LEGEND:
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THE MARTYR:
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THE SEPARATION:
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THE PHANTOM:
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THE BRIDE:
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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY.
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METRICAL LEGENDS.
  
A METRICAL LEGEND OF WILLIAM WALLACE.
  
THE LEGEND OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
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THE LEGEND OF LADY GRISELD BAILLIE.
  
[prologue]
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III.
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VIII.
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XIII.
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XIV.
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XVIII.
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XIX.
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XX.
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XXI.
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XXVI.
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XXVII.
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XXVIII.
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XXIX.
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XXX.
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XXXII.
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XXXIII.
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XXXIV.
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XXXV.
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XXXVI.
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XXXVII.
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XXXVIII.
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XXXIX.
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XL.
 XLI. 
XLI.
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XLII.
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XLIII.
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XLIV.
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XLV.
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XLVI.
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XLVII.
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XLVIII.
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LIII.
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LVI.
  
LORD JOHN OF THE EAST:
  
MALCOLM'S HEIR:
  
THE ELDEN TREE:
  
THE GHOST OF FADON.
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FUGITIVE VERSES.
  
[dedication]
  
A WINTER'S DAY.
  
A SUMMER'S DAY.
  
NIGHT SCENES OF OTHER TIMES.
  
ADDRESS TO THE MUSES.
  
A MELANCHOLY LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A CHEERFUL-TEMPERED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS
  
A PROUD LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A POETICAL OR SOUND-HEARTED LOVER'S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.
  
A REVERIE.
  
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
  
A LAMENTATION.
  
A MOTHER TO HER WAKING INFANT.
  
A CHILD TO HIS SICK GRANDFATHER.
  
THUNDER
  
THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER.
  
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MISCELLANEOUS POETRY
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.
  
EPILOGUE
  
THE BANISHED MAN.
  
TO A CHILD.
  
SONG
  
LONDON.
  
LINES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ.
  
VERSES TO OUR OWN FLOWERY KIRTLED SPRING.
  
LINES TO A PARROT.
  
LINES TO A TEAPOT.
  
THE MOODY SEER:
  
THE MERRY BACHELOR
  
TWO SONGS.
  
SONG
  
TO SOPHIA J.BAILLIE.
  
THE KITTEN.
  
SCHOOL RHYMES FOR NEGRO CHILDREN.
  
RHYMES.
  
RHYMES FOR CHANTING.
  
DEVOTIONAL SONG FOR A NEGRO CHILD.
  
SECOND DEVOTIONAL SONG.
  
THIRD DEVOTIONAL SONG.
  
A NURSERY LESSON (DEVOTIONAL).
  
SECOND NURSERY LESSON
  
HYMN.
  
RECOLLECTIONS OF A DEAR AND STEADY FRIEND.
  
TWO BROTHERS.
  
LINES TO AGNES BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY.
  
VERSES SENT TO MRS. BAILLIE ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1813.
  
VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY, 1827.
  
THE TRAVELLER BY NIGHT IN NOVEMBER.
  
LINES FOR A FRIEND'S ALBUM.
  
ADDRESS TO A STEAMVESSEL.
  
SONG,
  
A SONG
  
FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING.
  
HOOLY AND FAIRLY.
  
THE LADY IN HER CAR.
  
TO JAMES B. BAILLIE,
  
THE WEARY PUND O' TOW.
  
TAM O' THE LIN.
  
NEW WORDS TO THE OLD SCOTCH AIR OF “THE WEE PICKLE TOW.”
  
SONG,
  
VOLUNTEER'S SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
A SCOTCH SONG.
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
A SAILOR'S SONG.
  
SONG,
  
SIR MAURICE:
  
TO MRS. SIDDONS.
  
A SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
THE BLACK COCK,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG,
  
SONG.
  
ON THE DEATH OF A VERY DEAR FRIEND.
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VERSES ON SACRED SUBJECTS.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN.
  
HYMN FOR THE SCOTCH KIRK.
  
A SECOND HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
A THIRD HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
ST. MATTHEW, v. 9.
  
ST.LUKE, XVIII. 16.
  
ST.JOHN, XXI. 1.
  
ST. LUKE, VII. 12.
  
JOB, XIII. 15.
  
HYMN.
  
A HYMN FOR THE KIRK.
  
A HYMN.
  
SELECT VERSES FROM THE 147TH PSALM.
  
THOUGHTS TAKEN FROM THE 93RD PSALM.
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AHALYA BAEE:

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THE BANISHED MAN.

ON A DISTANT VIEW OF HIS COUNTRY, WHICH HE IS QUITTING FOR EVER.

Dear distant land, whose mountains blue
Still bound this wild and watery view,—
Dear distant land, where fate has thrown
All that my heart delights to own!
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Blest be yon gleam of partial light,
Which gives thee to my parting sight!
Those well-known cliffs, whose shadows throw
Soft coolness o'er the beach below,
Where I so oft, a happy child,
Picking or shell or weed, beguiled
Light reckless hours, that pass'd away,
Like night-sparks on the briny spray,—
Dear pleasant shore, thy sandy bed,
These feet unblest no more shall tread!
Still thy rich vales with autumn's store,
And cheerful hamlets mottled o'er;
Thy up-land peaks whose stately forms
Are mantled oft in gathering storms;
Thy blue streams widening on their way,
Thy broad lakes gleaming to the day;
Thy smoking towns, whose towers of war
And dusky spires are seen afar,
Thy children's boastful pride will raise,
And fix the admiring stranger's gaze,—
But now, for ever lost to me,
These eyes unblest no more shall see.
Thy wild pipe, touch'd with rustic hands,
Thy reapers' song from merry bands,
Thy boatman's call and dashing oar,
Thy falling torrent's deafening roar,
Thy busy city's humming sound,
With all its sweet bells chiming round,
Far, on a strange and cheerless shore,
These ears unblest shall hear no more.
Happy is he, beyond all gain,
Who holds in thee his free domain,
And roves with careless feet at will
O'er his paternal mead and hill,
And stores the fruit his harvests yield
From his own orchard and his field!
Happy is he who leads at dawn
His harness'd steers across thy lawn!
Yea, happy he, bent down with toil,
Whose glistening brow bedews thy soil!
How gently heaves the evening sea,
As all things homeward tend to thee!
Borne lightly on the gentle gale,
Now homeward points each little sail;
Far, screaming from their airy height,
The sea-fowl homeward take their flight;
The floating plank and spreading weed.
Upon the setting current speed;
The light cloud passes on the wind,
While I alone am left behind.
Ah, woe is me! where shall I stray,
And whither bend my reckless way?
A waste of world before me lies,
But in the thought my spirit dies.
There is no home nor joy for me,
My native land, removed from thee.
For me the sun of heaven doth shine
Upon no hills, no plains, but thine;
For me the voice of kindness sounds
Only within thy cheerful bounds.
Rise, surgy deep; ye wild winds, blow,
And whelm my bark these waves below!
Then bear me to my native land,
A breathless corse upon her strand:
Some hand, in pity of the dead,
Will lay her greensward on my head,
And there for ever let me rest,
As sleeps the froward child, still'd on his mother's breast!
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